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- Humanitarian
- Peace and transition
- Development
- Climate and environment
- Multiple
The United Nations centre of expertise on pooled funding
The Multi-Partner Trust Fund Office (MPTFO) provides fund design and administration services to UN entities, national governments, and other partners.
These integrated ‘Administrative Agent’ (AA) services are provided from fund inception to closure, with the MPTFO in an impartial and independent role, separate from implementing entities, ensuring proper fiduciary checks and balances.
The underlying premise of pooled funding is the recognition that some challenges cannot be overcome by individual action, and that sustainable development – and the SDGs – will only be achieved when we work together.
The MPTF Office carefully curates a fund portfolio that cover a broad range of thematic categories. From humanitarian, peace and transition to climate action or development, funds are used to implement initiatives that accelerate SDG progress, generating results on local, regional, global scales.
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Evaluations play a significant role in effective programme planning, accountability, and learning. They provide evidence of achieved results and help uncover lessons learned and best practices. In UN inter-agency pooled funds, participating UN organizations (PUNOs) assess programmes based on their own evaluation policies and guidelines, in line with the ‘pass-through’ mechanism governing pooled funds.
From 30 June to 3 July, the MPTFO joined Heads of State, Governments, and other partners at FfD4 – the pre-eminent forum for addressing financial challenges to sustainable development – in Sevilla, Spain.
While participating in discussions on a range of topics, from disability inclusion to climate data, and from multilateral finance to combatting desertification, each event was an opportunity to showcase how pooled funding has delivered in terms of enhancing the impact of development finance, reducing fragmentation, and piloting innovative approaches..
Kunduz, Afghanistan – 28 July 2025- The United Nations has launched a new joint project Participatory Action for Integrated Developmental Assistance to Areas of Return (PAIDAAR), to support returnees, internally displaced persons (IDPs), and displacement-affected host communities in Kunduz and Baghlan provinces.